Journal-level metrics
The metrics below are produced by third parties as ways to quantify the impact this journal has on the research community.
Please note that these metrics should always be considered in the context of how they are calculated. As a signatory of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) we also emphasise that none of these journal-level metrics should be used to judge the impact of an individual article or author, or their research outputs.
For full details of how these metrics are calculated, please see our guide to journal-level metrics.
Journal metrics
| 2-year Impact Factor | 3.2 |
| 5-year Impact Factor | 2.6 |
| Eigenfactor | 0.00235 |
| Article Influence Score | 0.751 |
| CiteScore | 3.8 |
| Scimago Journal Rank (SJR) | 0.849 |
| Source Normalised Impact per Paper (SNIP) | 1.186 |
Article counts
The table below displays information about the number of articles published in this journal in 2022. For further details of how articles are counted, please see this page.
Publishing statistics
We will soon be providing annual statistics about this journal's publishing activity. Please check back later.
Published articles
| Total number of articles last year | 86 (as of July 2023) |
| Number of OA articles last year | 47 (as of July 2023) |
| Number of articles last year supported by subscription revenue | 43 (as of July 2023) |
2022 Peer Review Statistics
Total New Submissions Received: 219
Acceptance Rate: 37%
Average time to first decision: 42 days
2021 Impact Factor
Impact Factor: 2.406
Five-Year Impact Factor: 2.216
73 out of 109 in Health Care Sciences & Services
26 out of 31 in Medical Informatics
Total Citations: 2,701
2021 Journal Citation Indicator (JCI)
JCI: 0.48
112 out of 159 in Health Care Sciences & Services
271 out of 392 in Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
32 out of 38 in Medical Informatics
2021 CiteScore
CiteScore: 3.3
Number of citations 2018-2021: 767
Number of documents 2018-2021: 235
98 out of 265 in Health Policy
2022 Usage (from Cambridge Core):
Total Full-Text Downloads: 218,318
Article Metrics
We make the number of article downloads and Altmetric mentions available for each article published in the journal. From the article, navigate to the ‘Metrics’ tab to see this information.